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The Washington critic., 1887-06-27
l I Rrlcka dr and cellar on Caroline st

EOR SALE
II Brick, Or and cellar on Caroline st
W......'... ..'............ .So,op
Brick, 1Qr, on 18th. above In Circle...... $500
90 Or, on Q. bet Goth anu 2ist n w.. 2,s00
"a 1or. on II 81, bet I3th and lith,... $500
" ,r, Kingman Place............... 1000
I" n, Pierce Pl, bet 18th and 10Th. $500
4" lIr. o, bet 18th and nth sts....,, 7,2j0
" br south Capitol st............... 1900
Tor, on Corcoran st............... f,75D
/" sr, 14th st, business property. 1000
sr, Fcnton 1t. mr. Govt Print o.. 1850
" IN, q IT, net Attn and 5th II w....., 1890
" store and dwelling, lith Stu. 1000
4" Or, Riggs 1t, bet 18th and lith.... $3.50
" 10r and stable, on II ave........ $500
+" 5r and store. l3th and O SITS w. i,j0J
l(r. on N, bet 20th and 2lst SITS,
new house ................ lU,Eb
Frame OH Dunbarton ave............... 1900
" on Congress Il, mir postoiilcc..... 1000
iir brick, Il, bet 9th and 9Th, mr. Peusion
OUlCC..s.....'. .'.'.'..s....'.' lU,DJu
Also improved and unimproved property in
all parts OF the city. Apply to
j. W. T. MYERS & SON,
1i5S New York ave
E'OR sALE-On New York Ave w,
4 beautiful 3.story press.brick house, 10
rooms, all irescoed, mod imps with a-story
brick stable IN rear; price, only S62jJ.
j. W. p. MYERS S SON,
1i2S New York ave.
The Washington critic., 1887-06-27
NOR sALE-sncoIal msrgain--

l. Several six-room houses on A st n G; all
modern improvements; 10 per cent. invest
ment; price only 1000 each. Also,
iir brick. 18th ST. bet II and U......,.....s7 800
Sr, on L., bet 18th aud 10th SITS VICE.. 5000
llr and cellar ON COrcoran st,......,... 1900
Brick, llr, Fast Cap 81, bet 9Th and 5th.. 5000
1lr II cor II and .lst SITS n w.........,, $500
7r on Marion, bet 9Th and eth SITS n Wa. i,2N
Apply at once to j. w 7. MYERS 81 son,
li2S New York ave.
The Washington critic., 1887-06-27

Connected with 1, A. Evans 8 Co., Bostoni
E. L. Brewster & Co., Chicago; CorsOn s. Ma
cartney, Washington; Hubbard g. Farmer,
Hartford; Warren s. Quarles, Richmond.
Private Wire Connections. Buy and sell
Stocks, Bonds and Miscellaneous Securities
on New York Stock Exchange.
The Washington critic., 1887-06-27
SAKS & COMPANY
Mems and Boys Oaii!ters,
Seventh and Market Space.
SPECIAL NOTICES.

exseI WANT EVERYBODY to X now
ISS that have purchased the mammoth
th.rooms and barber shop corner Sth and
ID SITS n w formerly owned by Burgess n
Shepard, and intend to make It first class Ia
every respect. 1t will also be the headquar-
tiers ior the Bailey Truss. Give me a call
l. q ALLEY
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30

the lid is drawn open whenever the
weather is shadowy or damp. When
sufficient moisture has fallen and the
pitcher saturated, the cover falls down
SO firmly that evaporation cannot en-
sue: The water is thus gradually alb
sorbed through the handle in the foot
stalk of the leaf, giving sustenance
and vigor to the plant. As
soon as the pitchers are ex-
hausted, the lids again open to admit
whatever moisture may fall; and when
the plans has produced its seed, and
the dry season fairly sets in, it withers,
with all the covers of the pitchers
standing open. The flower of the bee
orchis is like piece of honeycomb, and
the bees delight in it. Then there is
the snap dragon, the corolla of which
is cleft, and turned back so as to look
like a rabbits mouth, especially if
pinched on the sides, when the animal
appears as if nibbling. The flower of
the cocks comb and the seed pod of
the mostynia proboscindea bear curious
resemblance to the objects which have
suggested their names. Some kinds of
the mendicago have also curious seed
pods, some being like bee hives, some
like caterpillars, and some like hedge
hogs-the last being itself an essen
TALLY ludicrous object.-Floral Cabi-
met
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
White Hair in Samoa.

Upon my first visit to Apia, the cap
ital Of Samoan Islands, in 1873, was
surprised to see so many men walking
about with what first believed to be
snow-white hair, but upon closer ex-
animation l learned that the natives APP
ply whitish clay similar to our white
wash to their hair. This they use in
stead of pomade or hair-oil, and apply
it in thick mass until the hair be-
comes thoroughly hardened and white.
The men continue this process of
bleaching their hair until it loses its
former black color and with time turns
to brownish red. A rather peculiar
taste, but the men feel proud Of their
success to color their hair. Quite often
women go through the same perform
ance, but they are compelled to wear
their hair short, as long hair cannot so
easily be discolored. Natives OF Samoa,
as rule, regard work as unnecessary,
and all the work done on the planta
tions owned by Europeans is performed
by Kanakas imported from other is
lands.-Nelc Yo~k World.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
The Minister'S Reason for BORROWING.

| Peter Brooks maxim was TINT the
whole value OF wealth consists in the
personal independence it secures, A
New York merchant named Porter had
o clerical friend between whom and
himself existed great intimacy. Every
Saturday night note would come to
Porter from the preacher, requesting
the loan OF a fve-dollar bill. The
money was always restored punctually
at y o'clock on the ensuing Monday
morning. But what puzzled Porter was
the fact that the money returned was
always the identical money that was
borrowed.
One Saturday evening Porter sent
tive-dollar gold piece instead OF a note
and marked it. Still the very same
coin was returned on Monday. Porter
became nervous and bilious over it: he
could hardly sleep at night for think
ing about it. He would wake his wife
in the middle of the night and ask her
what she thought about the strange
thing. He was fast boiling over with
curiosity, when a note came from the
reverend borrower one Christmas eve,
asking for ten dollars.
A bright thought now struck him.
He put on his overcoat, resolved to
call and demand an explanation of the
mystery. When shown into his friends
study he found Linn plunged into the
profoundest melancholy.
"Mr. b.. said he, If you will answer
me one question, J. will let you have
that money. How does it happen that
you always pay me the money you
borrow on Saturday night in the very
same coin or note on Monday night?"
The preacher raised his head, and
after violent internal struggle, as
though he were about to unveil his
souls most boarded mystery. said in
faltering tones:
Porter, You are gentleman, a
Christian, and New Yorker. know
l can rely on your inviolable secrecy.
Listen to the secret Of my eloquence.
You know l ON poor, and when, on
Saturday, have bought my Sunday
dinner, 1 have seldom a cent left in my
pocket. Now, L maintain that no man
can preach the Gospel and blow up
his congregation properly without he
has something in his pocket to inspire
confidence. / have, therefore, Dor
rowed S. of you every Sunday, that i
might feel it occasionally as I preached
on Sunday. You know how independ-
emily do preach-how L make the
rich fellows shake in their shoes. Well,
it is all owing to my knowing that I
have a So bill in my pocket. Of course,
never having to use it for any other
purpose, it is not changed, but invari-
bly, returned to you. But Tomorrow
George Law is coming to hear me
preach, and l thought I would try the
effect. of a ten-dollar sermon Oh linn"
English Publication.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
An Opera Bell.

A new operate representation in
Paris introduces u deep tolling which
could ordinarily be given only with q
church bell weighing $4,000 pounds.
The production of this deep tone with
available apparatus has been the sub
ject Of much study and experiment.,
and the problem has been finally solved
by Mr.. Sax, of saNophone and saxhorn
fame. This he has done with bell of
peculiar form weighing only fifteen
pounds. It consists of sheet OF brass
rolled into the shape of cornet, SOL
dered, and then hammered into SUI
perposed mutations that finally give the
whole q parabolic form. The timber.
pitch end intensity Of sound yielded
varies according to the number, form,
and arrangement of the mutations. In
the tolling the vibrations are prolonged
by means of two sa1horns and small
bell sounding two octaves higher, and
The result is impressive. This is one
+ ::hs .--ss:y :an?e~- aTT;s1s;issaticcs f a@;~
s.t>e IL ltszM edssezzA ~-,A+A;aSsGs6 y 40.
etsT.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
Antiquity Of Telegrapl,y.

A correspondent of the French jour-
nal, Cosmos, states that in q curious
old work printed at Paris in 1922 there
occurs remarkable passage, in which
the following is translation: ave
may also tell you OF this great and
wonderful secret, which certain Ger
man has shown to King Henry, and
who. by his industry and dexterity, is
able to speak with those who are far
away, and this by means of the magnet.
He first rubs together two needle mag
nets, and then places them each sep
arately upon two clock dials, around
which are engraven the twenty-four let
ters of the alphabet. If, then, they
wish to speak together, or make
each other understood what they would
desire, they move one hand around un-
til it has pointed to the letters
which, are necessary to make the
words and sentences that they would
say, and as they turn one needle so also
the distant needle turns, making al
ways the same movement. The king
seeing this wonderful secret forbade
him to divulge it, fearing that thus
would be opened very dangerous com
muulcHGIOu DoGWeeu Tile armies OF MS
enemies and their besieged towns. ;"
The title page of the work in which the
above passage is said to occur Con the
247th page) is as follows: "L'j,ecrelu-
lite ct nlescg'e0,ece tlu sortileqe 1otai7se-
nle,lt co7auai7lcue Par p. de J. Ancre,
co1eseille,' det Roy en- sou coaaseM d
Estat Paris. Chez Nicholai Boon,
rue Sai,sct-Iacques. a / e,esegne Sai,eel
Claude ct de T. Homn1e Sa,tatage!
MDC-YX1L The notion that two
magnetic needles by being rubbed to-
gether would afterwards move in
sympathy find place in more than one
book of marvels of the seventeenth
century, but the above date is, we be-
lieve the earliest to which it has yet
been traced. -Electricidn.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
Value Of Bogus Coin.

In the records of Mauchline sessions
the following entry occurs under the
date 1749: Found in the box of good
money, e66 rs. I'd Scots, and of bad
copper, E43 los. I'd" And for many
years afterward, when the Mauchline
kirk box was opened, similar fact
was revealed. For every three pennies
OF good copper there We're two of bad.
The conclusion is forced on our mind
that in olden times large number of
people kept their bad coppers for
charitable purposes, so as to appear to
be giving to the poor when they were
not giving, and to be lending to the
Lord when they were holding back.
and the left hand doubtless knew on
these occasions what the right hand
did. "In 1854, we learn from foot
note, the kirk session of kilmarnock
thought fit that the minister exhort
the people not to give their doutts
(doits, a Dutch coin of the value of
penny, or as some say, a penny and q
third of penny Scots) to the poor now,
when none will accept Of them as cur
rent This just and pious exhorta-
ton, it would seem, fell on
dull ears, for in 1866 the kirk
session directed It's treasurer "to dis
pose and sell the dots and other bad
money he got from the last treasurer"
to the best advantage. Every other
year there was at Mauchline q sale of
bad coppers when the contents of the
kirk box were examined. The CAB It'd.
Sd. of bad coppers found in the box
in l74S were disposed of at the rate
of seven pence per Dutch pound, and
they realized II It's. sd. In other
words, every penny OF bad copper put
into the plate as % contribution to the
poor was worth only the sixth part of q
penny, or a little more than half
farthing. In 1888 the price of bad
copper rose to eightpence per pound,
whether because they we're more run
on for charitable purposes or for some
other equally laudable reason it is not
stated, but it IS at least pleasant to
think that the poor derived some profit
by the enhanced value of what was
given for their support. In 1774 the
market for bad coppers became very
drug, possibly from being overstocl1ed,
and it was minuted that every member
of session is desired to try the several
smiths and coppersmiths to buy the
bad copper. Like nuts at the end of q
fair, they were to be had at a bargain
n penny q quarter, twopence q half
pound-cheap, cheap, cheap! - Oh
CtlyUI Life in EUglUy11.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
Burdettisnls.

us your father Christian?" asked
the new minister. "No," replied the
boy, "he sings in the choir"
The Prince of Wales is Colonel-in-
chief of three regiments and honorary
Colonel of eleven more. Whenever
you hear any one speak of Kentucky
favorite son, you will know who is
meant.
"Has any one the secret of long life?"
asks a philosopher. Yes, indeed; the
bell-boy has it. He can live two hours
on ten-minute errand, but no other
human being knows how he does it.
Queen Emma, of Holland, has pretty
eyes, but mars their effectiveness by q
habit Of winking constantly. That's
funny, that she should contract such a
habit. Holland isn't q Prohibition
State, is it?
Prisoner, did you kill this boy?" IT
did, your Honor; cut his throat. He
shot me in the ear with rubber sling.
and -" "The prisoner is discharged,
and the Sheriff will give him back his
knife and tell the janitor to sharpen
it for him"
Sometimes" said the teacher, CHS
tory repeats itself; can you give an in
stance?" eyes, SIR" said smart, bad
boy, with slow, panied tone of ex-
preston, ut will have to do so this
recitation, if it wants to get repeated,
because cannot do it,.
My son, be uniformly serious in your
conversation with strangers. 1t is an
uncomfortable situation to be in, hay
ing uttered merry little pleasantly,
to learn from the icy chill that congeals
your hearts blood that you are talking
to that awful and human iceberg, the
man who never Jokes. There is only
one worse thing in the world of horrors
the man who always jokes.
@What is tho charger" asked the
Justice. "Well, sor," said the officer,
"this man knocked the child here Until
the gutter, thin kicked him all the way
across the sthreet, an phin I KEN up
wild 'em he was batin' him wild the tail
gate of a doompt cart" "Why did you
assault the child, prisoner" because
he threw o stone at poor cat" "What
is your business?" II am philan-
thropist. He gets thirty days for
sentiment and reflection.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
The CIergymau,s Com,Iaiut.

"Our laws should be changed" said
clergyman who happened into the
court where they We're grinding out di-
vorces.
do Won think you could suggest the
change?" asked one OF the divorce at
torneys.
II do, indeed" replied the clergy
man. "By the way, how much did you
receive as attorney in the last divorce
case?"
al received $50OO,' replied the law
yer. ........
"Well, I think that great injustice
has been done me-" observed the
clergyman. II only received IS for
marrying the couple, and you received
ten times more than l did for getting
them divorced. There is radical
wrong somewhere. = Carl Pretgers
IFpeI.}U
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30

rivers si anu o. R CapftsiSne gtvtnds might Ia
~ ~. a91a .st nth tho heel and the shout of
JIG swa1t skater. / wish that when the
1 wa a ~ea' her CORES the graceful oar might
ra sne ~ feam, and the evening tide I've
, ,r"a aa1 with boatman's song, the bright
a Hao~ up ttting the crystalline billow. We
o oa na ~ the smooth and grassy lawn.
a .at;. W. will call out people of ala ccct,.
patlons iand professions, and ask them to
JON IN the ball players sport. You will
cone back from these outdoor exercises
ana screations with strength in your arm,
nnu color in your cheek, and flash in
~. :ssVe, and courage in your lfeal,t, In
.ls .s.reat battle that is opening against the
n alu e.aom of darkness we want not only a
70 fsscrated soul, but strong ,apm and
- Fst lungs and mighty muscle. L bless
- @a that there are SO many recreations
nEt have not on them any faint of iniouity:
J sereations in which we may engage for
cTengthening of the body, for the clearing
Of theintellect, for the illumination of the
Iaeul.
There is still another form of recreation
which commend to You, and that is the
pleasure of doing good. I have seen Young
men, weak and cross and sour and repell.
I ing IN their disposition, who by one heav-
; eehiy touch have Weakened up and become
| nlessed and buoyant, the ground under
their feet and the sky over their heads
, breaking forth into music. "Oh," saws
, some young man in the house to-day, II
should like that recreation above all
others, but have not the means" NV
dear brother, let us take an account Of
stock this morning, You have a large es-
tate, if you sonly realize it. Two hands.
Two feet. You will have, perhaps, dnr-
ing the next year at least $40 for charitable
. constitution. You will have $500 cheer
full looks, if you want to employ them.
+ You will hive 5000 pleasant words, if Won
! want ,tos speak them. Now what am amount
/ this is to start with!
! You'go out tomorrow morning. and Won
, see case of real restitution by the way
, side. You give him cents. The blind
man hears the pennies rattle in his hat,
|, and he says: Thank you, sir; God bless
you." You pass down the street, trying to
r look indifferent; but you feel from the
, stery depth of your soul o profound salts
faction that you made thatman happy. You
, go on still farther, and find a poor boy
with O wheelbarrow, trying to get it up on
the curbstone. He fails in the attempt.
You say: "Stand back. my Lad; let me
try" You push it up on the curbstone for
him and pass on. He wonders who that
well-dressed man was that helped him.
You did great Joy to your own soul. You
will not get over it oil the week.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
Chinese Glass Making.

The Chinese in Hong Kong manage
to turn out considerable quantity of
glassware of various kinds and of fair
quality, with the minimum of imrle-
ments aud plant the most inexpen-
sive. True, the material in general
use is old glass remelted, for which ex-
pensive furnaces and apparatus are not
indispensable. The crucibles used are
small, rarely exceeding in capacity 200
pounds. These are set in furnace
stocked from small opening in the
side. About three hundredweight of
coal is used in melting one crucible of
glass. The tubes by which the molten
glass is collected from the pot are per-
ceptibly lighter and shorter than those
used in America. After being blown,
the glass is annealed in q small square
pit containing ashes and straw, the lat
ter being speedily converted into ash
by contact with the heated glass. The
moulds used are made of clay. and are
often very ingeniousiy devised to meet
the varying Indications required.
When taken from the crucible the
operator does not marver the lump of
molten glass by rolling on q flat, iron
slab, as is usually done. They have, in
fact, no marver's tools or other APP
planes usually seen in glass-blowing
establishments. A small trowel-siiaped
tool of iron, clay moulds, and few
iron tubes constitute the Chinese glass
blowers whole stock in trade. The
above relates to Chinese glass-blowers
alone, of whom there are many in the
colony, but there is large plant for
the manufacture of glass owned by
English and foreigners in Hong Kong,
which has all the modern appliances,
but is not now at work. --1meric0
Cultiv0tor.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
Comicalities il, Plants.

There is Jack-in-the Pulpit, the fow-
ers Of the plant known as the Indian
turnip (Arisema triphyllumD who
could never look at one OF these singu-
lar blossoms without that same stirring
of the risible faculties which one ex-
periences in pursuing parody or Carl
cature, or witnessing pantomime !?
The very sight Of one is provocative of
mirth. How many times in my school,
days did 1 challenge the teachers frown
by involuntary giggles at the whimsical
look of the imprisoned Jack! Monks
hood of the genus aconitum has quaint,
comical flowers, suggestive of an old
ladys head in a night-cap. The we'll
known fy-trap Dionpa muscipula)
strikes the mind with all the effect of
joke. The leaves OF this plant are
fringed with stiff bristles, and fold to-
gether when certain hairs on their up
per surface are touched, thus Selling
insects that light on them. Seeing the
leaf stand temptingly open, a poor fly
pops in for shelter or food. No sooner
has it touched it's feet than some sensi-
tive tibers are affected, and the ella at
the top closes in upon the intruder, inn
prisoning him as etfectually as if boy
had taken and closed him in box. The
pitcher-plant or monl1ey-cap Of the
east, although not particularly ludi-
crous, has whimsical arrangement
which borders closely upon the human
economy. 70 the foot-stalks of each
leaf of this plant, near the base, is at
tached kind of bag, shaped like
pitcher, Of the same consistence and
color as the leaf in the earlier state Of
it's growth, but changing with age to
reddish purple. 1t is grit around with
an oblique band OF hoop, and covered
with a lid neatly fitted, and movable
on a kind of hinge or strong fiber,
which, passing over the handle, con-
meets the vessel with the leaf. by the
shrinking or contracting of this fiber
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30

DON'T say hard things OF The .her.
mometer. It feels the heat Il. mach az
you do.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30
Commander of the Rangers.

Lee Hall, who commanded the famous
Texas Rangers organized by the Gov
ernor of the Lone Star State to put
down lawlessness, has been in WASH
ington recently. He is q tall man, with
auburn heir, tawny mustache and
steel-blue eyes. He is considered the
bravest man in Texas. He says: II
did nv duty to the State and restored
the majesty of the law in rather tough
localities. Life and property are now
safe in Texas. I am known through
out the State and have just fighting
reputation enough left SO that people
let me alone" 1t will be observed
that, like all other brave men, he is
extremely dest.-Ne1c lorE World.
When the first electric telegraph was
established, according to the British
Postmaster General, the speed OF trans
mission was from four to five words Il
minute on the tive-needle instruments.
In 1S4o the average rate Tor number
of newspaper messages was seventeen
words u minute. The present pace CT
the electric telegraph between London
and Dublin, where the Wheatstone au-
tomato instrument is employed, reaches
AG2 words r minute and thls what was
regarded as miraculous sixty wears ago
has multiplied hundred fold in one
half century. ~wl1gAAaHsatr 1l'arelcr.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30

OH has been very weak for some
time. A natural effect Of being struck
SO much, perhaps. ="
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30

THE two noblest things-which are,
sweetness and light. Jonathan SluuI
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-30

He whose only claim to the title
gentleman" is in his clothes must n &C.
essarily be careful as to what he wears.